Klemens von Metternich

Klemens von Metternich (15 May 1773-11 June 1859) was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Austrian Empire from 1809 to 1848 and State Chancellor from 1821 to 1848. The liberal Revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation.

Biography
Metternich was born in Koblenz in the Electorate of Trier, part of the Austrian Empire, in 1773. He received a good education at Strasbourg and Mainz, and became a high-ranking politician at the court of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1809 he was made the second Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Austrian Empire and arranged the marriage of Napoleon I of France to Marie Louise of Parma as a part of a political and marriage alliance.

Metternich later became the State Chancellor of Austria in 1821, serving until 1848, when the Revolutions of 1848 broke out across the world. Metternich was deposed by the liberal revolutionaries, and he died in 1859.